Richard SykesRichard Sykes
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Dr Richard Sykes is a businessman with a breadth of experience that spans the chemical and IT industries and the world of arts. He has held senior executive roles in a major global multinational, and non-executive chairmanships of smaller ventures, and has lived and managed businesses internationally.
In his personal practice he works as a board-level strategic analyst and advisor in information technology and business process sourcing, outsourcing and offshoring. His particular focus is the transformation of classic outsourcing business models by new models based on direct sourcing of information technology and business process services, including through the agency of 'the Cloud'.
He currently advises the independent sourcing consultants Alsbridge on the emergent practicalities of 'CloudSourcing', and the UK Government's 'G-Cloud & Apps Store' initiative. He co-authored the 2007 business book 'Global Services – Moving to a Level Playing Field'. He is an elected member of the Board of Intellect (the UK business association of the IT, Telecoms and Electronics industries), and serves on the European Advisory Board of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
In his personal practice he works as a board-level strategic analyst and advisor in information technology and business process sourcing, outsourcing and offshoring. His particular focus is the transformation of classic outsourcing business models by new models based on direct sourcing of information technology and business process services, including through the agency of 'the Cloud'.
He currently advises the independent sourcing consultants Alsbridge on the emergent practicalities of 'CloudSourcing', and the UK Government's 'G-Cloud & Apps Store' initiative. He co-authored the 2007 business book 'Global Services – Moving to a Level Playing Field'. He is an elected member of the Board of Intellect (the UK business association of the IT, Telecoms and Electronics industries), and serves on the European Advisory Board of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
Platforms make sense in the Cloud!
An October Leading Edge Forum study tour in California, visiting Silicon Valley pace setters. Eighteen months ago I forecast that the real outsourcing commerce of ‘the Cloud’ would develop in the form of Platforms. All that...
Richard Sykes | 09 November 2010 | Articles, USA, Global, All Columns,
Some none too subtle shifts in the commerce of outsourcing
Transformational change always takes longer than the early adopters believe is either likely or reasonable – but if the drivers for the change are real, it happens, eventually. Look back to the early years of offshoring in...
Richard Sykes | 11 October 2010 | Global, UK, Articles, All Columns,
Are we in the business of outsourcing, sourcing or services?
I recently started work with a new South African collaborator: he & I are together helping a major ICT firm in Johannesburg review its established & traditional outsourcing business in the context of the growing...
Richard Sykes | 13 September 2010 | Articles, UK, South Africa, Global, All Columns,
Outsource magazine and the ACCA announce an exclusive partnership
